What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit?

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit requires approximately 1.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1.5b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit?

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 1.6GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 1.6GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

8bit Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-1.5b Chat Conversational En Instruct Mlx Quantized Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-8bit

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-8bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	1.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.6 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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